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Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.

Cloud computing was meant to do away with vendor lock-in, but the work of an independent researcher suggests it could be having the opposite effect.

Researcher and cloud architect Dave McCrory has spent the past two years working on a theory of "data gravity", intended to allow IT buyers to assess cloud products’ potential for vendor lock-in and so make decisions to keep their data as accessible as possible.

According to the theory, clouds are not the adaptable systems that their marketing portrays them as, but planets that are always hungry for more data – and loathe to let it leave. "The motivation for looking at things like this is to determine what you want to do with your data and where you want to put your data, so this allows you to look at it as instead of just storing bits and bytes, it could be the longer term effects of your decision to put your bits and bytes over there," McCrory says…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Apple has agreed to pay $60 million to make the Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Company’s claims that it owns the iPad trademark in China go away.

Apple bought Proview’s iPad trademarks in 10 countries through a UK lawyer and a specially organized company for about $55,000 (£35,000) in 2009 before the iPad came out and sued when Proview claimed the Taiwan affiliate it dealt with wasn’t authorized to sell the Chinese rights. Apple lost the suit and appealed.

The appeals court, which announced the settlement on its web site, reportedly mediated the deal, which, it said, was struck on June 25. The dickering took since the end of February…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Dell has won the bidding war for Quest Software agreeing to pay $28 a share, a 50 cent improvement on its last bid.

That brings the price to $2.36 billion, which is what JPMorgan claimed the company was worth weeks ago.

Insight Venture Partners, which offered $23 a share back in March, had to bring in Vector Capital, another private equity firm, to offer a financed cash bid of $25.75 a share. Dell retorted with $27.50 or about $2.32 billion. That’s where things were last Monday with the ball in Insight’s court…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Reuven Cohen.

Amazon’s Cloud service is having a bad a couple weeks. For the second time in as many weeks Amazon’s East Coast cloud crashed during a severe storm that left 1.3 million in the Washington D.C. area without power. The outage brought down numerous high profile web sites hosted on Amazon including Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and Heroku. Making things worse was the fact that other cloud services hosted in the area experienced no downtime.

I spoke briefly to the George Branch, Director of Service Delivery for Washington D.C. based cloud provider Virtustream, who told me “The Virtustream Data Center was generally unaffected by the storms in the region. We did not have to switch over to generator at any time and we remain on utility power at the facility. Due to problems with one of our telephone vendors, we did lose access to our 877 telephone support line.”…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Nathan Eddy.

Pano for Cloud is an extension of the core technology in Pano System for VDI, a hardware-and-software virtual desktop solution.

Zero client virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) specialist Pano Logic introduced Pano for Cloud, a cloud computing platform with a centralized architecture that provides a single management console to deploy, control, and secure both endpoints and cloud desktops. The architecture eliminates the need for a local operating system and central processing unit and delivers Web-based computing, through Google’s Chrome browser.

In an effort to simply IT management for small businesses with limited staff and budgets, the platform provides IT managers with centralized desktop controls without the required software and operating systems to manage. By eliminating the endpoint device operating system, which can be the target of malicious code, and endpoint device storage, where unauthorized or malicious applications can hide or proprietary information may be lost if the device is stolen, Pano has also focused on providing enhanced security…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

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This report studies the global healthcare cloud computing market over the forecast period 2012-2017…

Grazed from PublicNet. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing has become mainstream in 2012 for providing IT facilities, but the public sector is slower to move into the cloud than private companies.

Cisco commissioned independent research amongst IT decision makers, in enterprises with more than 1,000 employees across a broad range of vertical sectors including government. The results clearly show that cloud has moved from hype to reality, with cloud now seen as a mainstream element of IT strategy.

Cloud computing, which allows oganisations to share resources, software and applications, has the potential to bring radical change to public sector ICT services. Using the cloud reduces costs and risks and brings scalability, and resilience…

Grazed from Sydney Morning Herald. Author: Michael Hall.

Who should you trust with your data when every cloud promises a silver lining?

While vendors claim cloud computing is more secure than on-premise data centres others suggest only user experience will eventually allay security fears to break down adoption barriers for wary enterprises. After all, who now keeps cash under a bed?

Cloud computing refers to computer resources that can be turned on or off and scaled up or down, depending on demand. It is increasingly used by businesses to supplement or replace their on-site computing facilities…